After fans started to get an eyeful of the new Gunna, a theory spread online that it was not the “WUNNA” artist in the pics, but a lookalike. “Every time somebody come home from jail y’all say they a clone, like shut up they not eating for real in there and they stressed,” a fan wrote on Instagram in June 2023 in response to a post positing the conspiracy theory. “When you go to jail you either come out fit or fat,” another fan added.
That theory that a faux-Gunna was being used continued in July 2023 when the rapper dropped the video for his hit single “f**umean.” In the visuals, Gunna rocked a tank top and overalls, and several fans were in disbelief at how much weight the rapper had shed. One fan took a screenshot of the video and expressed their incredulousness. “No way this is gunna,” they wrote on X. The tweet went viral and made its way back to the rapper who replied by quote-tweeting “f**umean.” Later, Gunna spoke out about his unbelievable weight loss.
In September 2023, TMZ caught up a with the svelte-looking Gunna and asked how he was “staying so fit.” Prior to his weight loss, the rapper had done well with the ladies, including a rumored relationship between Gunna and Chlöe Bailey. He joked that it was his intimate time with women that led to his new physique. “Lifting legs,” he replied to TMZ. The next year Gunna came clean about how he really lost the weight.
